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Date:	Thu, 03 May 2012 12:23:52 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jbaron@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] params: replace printk(KERN_<LVL>...) with
 pr_<lvl>(...)

On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:12 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> I left 1 printk which uses __FILE__, __LINE__ explicitly, which should
> not be subject to generic preferences expressed via pr_fmt().
[]
> diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
[]
> @@ -753,11 +747,9 @@ static struct module_kobject * __init locate_module_kobject(const char *name)
>  #endif
>  		if (err) {
>  			kobject_put(&mk->kobj);
> -			printk(KERN_ERR
> -				"Module '%s' failed add to sysfs, error number %d\n",
> +			pr_crit("Adding module '%s' to sysfs failed (%d), "
> +				"the system may be unstable.\n",
>  				name, err);
> -			printk(KERN_ERR
> -				"The system will be unstable now.\n");
>  			return NULL;
>  		}
>  

It'd be nicer to coalesce the formats and not worry about 80 columns.
Coalesced formats are easier to find via grep.

			pr_crit("Adding module '%s' to sysfs failed (%d), the system may be unstable\n",


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